Sorry still trying to figure out how to work the map but here's another update and probably one of the more difficult ones.
The Imperial Emirate of Arabia:
The Emirate of Arabia was originally a region of warring tribes and small city states that had existed in this situation for centuries. Changes came around the 6th Century when Christianity changed in the peninsula. Arabia was far from Rome and the Popes decrees rarely made it to the centres of the Arabian Dioceses and the loss of Rome to Attila, the relocation of the Papacy even further West to Iberia and the schism between the Iberian Papal Church and the Byzantine Ceasaropapism disconnected the Arabs from Catholicism even more.
In the 7th Century a yet unknown Bishop named Akh'mid that led the Diocese around the city of Medina. He preached the loss of guidance from the corrupt Papacy and that the teachings should be administered by local Theocratic Councils of Patriarchs. This religion rapidly spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Medinanism spread throughout Arabia and united the Arab tribes into an Imperial Emirate that centralised itself in the manner of its Byzantine neighbours. Hoping to emulate the Empires of Persia and Rome they sponsored education through both the Church and through educational institutes and academies. This was the establishment of the Arabic educational policies.
The Imperial Emirate of Arabia led the Arabic Expansion and by the mid 8th century ruled an Empire that stretched from the Indus Valley to the Iberian Peninsula. However after only several decades the empire began to contract. Initial stages of the contraction began in 887 A.D and was unstoppable by 889 A.D Not enough people had been converted immediately and the nations they had conquered had too defined an identity to wipe out.
This was known as the Arabic Contraction as their Empire fractured and disappeared and the Arabs found themselves once again confined to the peninsula. However they had left a large legacy and diaspora and had succeeded in their failure to conquer, to instead extend their religion throughout North Africa and the Middle East. This would lead to the Church of Yahweh and the Buddha later but that would not be for some time.
With this decline the Imperial Emirate was now a shadow of what it once was. Even fellow Arabs broke off from the Imperial Emirate to establish their own realms.
Soon the Imperial Emirate was confined to only the Western and Central portion of the peninsula with even the cities on the other side of the Red Sea lost to them and the neighbouring states fortifying their borders facing the Arabs. With the loss of so much territory, resources and above all morale the Imperial Emirate was left a husk of it's previous glory with only the splendour of the Holy City all that was left of it's great legacy. However in the 13th Century things would change.
The Emirate of the Ghassani:
The Ghassani were the earliest of Arabian nations to convert to Christianity. For many centuries they had simply been a small and somewhat insignificant border state that had replaced the Lakhmids.
However it was in the 7th Century that things changed for the Ghassani.
They found themselves quickly assimilated into the Imperial Emirate of Arabia. The Ghassani were quickly converted to Medinanism as like the other Arabs they had found themselves disconnected from the Papacy and its decrees for centuries.
The Ghassani were on the front-lines of the initial invasion. Several decades prior to the Arabic Expansion the Ghassani had been displaced somewhat from their original territories just South of Mesopotamia by the Persians. The Ghassani were some of the most fanatical and ferocious warriors in the army that broke the Persians and routed their armies during the initial stages of the expansion. Many did settle in Mesopotamia but most remained in their homeland until 852 A.D where they were relocated to the Eastern portion of Arabia or dispersed throughout the Arabian Empire.
After the contraction was complete the Ghassani found that they possessed land only around the Eastern portion of Arabia. The Ghassani had gone from the greatest members of the imperial Emirate to a small, impoverished nation in desolate Eastern Arabia.
The Yemeni Emirates:
The Yemen people had always been an isolated portion of the Arabic people.
The Yemeni Emirates formed mainly around the 6th Century from small Arabic clans into proper states as Christianity and new culture reached that portion of the peninsula. Despite these changes the Yemeni remained farming states much as they had been for centuries.
However during the rise of the Imperial Emirate in the 7th Century the Yemeni actually resisted the Imperial Arabic armies until it became obvious that too many Yemeni had converted to Medinanism. The Yemeni Emirs convened and then collectively struck a deal with the Imperial Emir to make their states semi-independent vassals under the Imperial Emir.
The Yemeni agreed to provide troops during the Arabic Expansion. Several decades later though the benefits of the Expansion became apparent to the Yemeni. The conquest of Persia saw new trade links to india appearing through the Persian Gulf from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley and now the Yemeni Emirates were one of the trade hubs along this new route. Despite the contraction of the Arabs the Yemeni remained a trade hub as the new trade route was not abandoned.
In order to maximise the efficiency of their trade the Yemeni Emirs once again convened in 832 A.D to establish a new political system. The Emirs established a from of oligarchy to theoretically unite their Emirates without abandoning their individual sovereignty.
The Yemeni Emirates continued to control the trade links through the Persian Gulf and their greatest achievement happened in 911 A.D where the Yemeni established a professional naval force to patrol the gulf and ward off pirates.
The navy was put under the control of the Oligarchy as a whole rather than under the individual Emirs which also promoted in a sense the unity of the Yemeni Emirates. However in the 13th Century a crisis would strike that would cripple the Emirates.
Well there you go hope whoever reads this enjoys it
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Next is the Baltic Region HOORAY. Sigh.
The Imperial Emirate of Arabia:
The Emirate of Arabia was originally a region of warring tribes and small city states that had existed in this situation for centuries. Changes came around the 6th Century when Christianity changed in the peninsula. Arabia was far from Rome and the Popes decrees rarely made it to the centres of the Arabian Dioceses and the loss of Rome to Attila, the relocation of the Papacy even further West to Iberia and the schism between the Iberian Papal Church and the Byzantine Ceasaropapism disconnected the Arabs from Catholicism even more.
In the 7th Century a yet unknown Bishop named Akh'mid that led the Diocese around the city of Medina. He preached the loss of guidance from the corrupt Papacy and that the teachings should be administered by local Theocratic Councils of Patriarchs. This religion rapidly spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Medinanism spread throughout Arabia and united the Arab tribes into an Imperial Emirate that centralised itself in the manner of its Byzantine neighbours. Hoping to emulate the Empires of Persia and Rome they sponsored education through both the Church and through educational institutes and academies. This was the establishment of the Arabic educational policies.
The Imperial Emirate of Arabia led the Arabic Expansion and by the mid 8th century ruled an Empire that stretched from the Indus Valley to the Iberian Peninsula. However after only several decades the empire began to contract. Initial stages of the contraction began in 887 A.D and was unstoppable by 889 A.D Not enough people had been converted immediately and the nations they had conquered had too defined an identity to wipe out.
This was known as the Arabic Contraction as their Empire fractured and disappeared and the Arabs found themselves once again confined to the peninsula. However they had left a large legacy and diaspora and had succeeded in their failure to conquer, to instead extend their religion throughout North Africa and the Middle East. This would lead to the Church of Yahweh and the Buddha later but that would not be for some time.
With this decline the Imperial Emirate was now a shadow of what it once was. Even fellow Arabs broke off from the Imperial Emirate to establish their own realms.
Soon the Imperial Emirate was confined to only the Western and Central portion of the peninsula with even the cities on the other side of the Red Sea lost to them and the neighbouring states fortifying their borders facing the Arabs. With the loss of so much territory, resources and above all morale the Imperial Emirate was left a husk of it's previous glory with only the splendour of the Holy City all that was left of it's great legacy. However in the 13th Century things would change.
The Emirate of the Ghassani:
The Ghassani were the earliest of Arabian nations to convert to Christianity. For many centuries they had simply been a small and somewhat insignificant border state that had replaced the Lakhmids.
However it was in the 7th Century that things changed for the Ghassani.
They found themselves quickly assimilated into the Imperial Emirate of Arabia. The Ghassani were quickly converted to Medinanism as like the other Arabs they had found themselves disconnected from the Papacy and its decrees for centuries.
The Ghassani were on the front-lines of the initial invasion. Several decades prior to the Arabic Expansion the Ghassani had been displaced somewhat from their original territories just South of Mesopotamia by the Persians. The Ghassani were some of the most fanatical and ferocious warriors in the army that broke the Persians and routed their armies during the initial stages of the expansion. Many did settle in Mesopotamia but most remained in their homeland until 852 A.D where they were relocated to the Eastern portion of Arabia or dispersed throughout the Arabian Empire.
After the contraction was complete the Ghassani found that they possessed land only around the Eastern portion of Arabia. The Ghassani had gone from the greatest members of the imperial Emirate to a small, impoverished nation in desolate Eastern Arabia.
The Yemeni Emirates:
The Yemen people had always been an isolated portion of the Arabic people.
The Yemeni Emirates formed mainly around the 6th Century from small Arabic clans into proper states as Christianity and new culture reached that portion of the peninsula. Despite these changes the Yemeni remained farming states much as they had been for centuries.
However during the rise of the Imperial Emirate in the 7th Century the Yemeni actually resisted the Imperial Arabic armies until it became obvious that too many Yemeni had converted to Medinanism. The Yemeni Emirs convened and then collectively struck a deal with the Imperial Emir to make their states semi-independent vassals under the Imperial Emir.
The Yemeni agreed to provide troops during the Arabic Expansion. Several decades later though the benefits of the Expansion became apparent to the Yemeni. The conquest of Persia saw new trade links to india appearing through the Persian Gulf from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley and now the Yemeni Emirates were one of the trade hubs along this new route. Despite the contraction of the Arabs the Yemeni remained a trade hub as the new trade route was not abandoned.
In order to maximise the efficiency of their trade the Yemeni Emirs once again convened in 832 A.D to establish a new political system. The Emirs established a from of oligarchy to theoretically unite their Emirates without abandoning their individual sovereignty.
The Yemeni Emirates continued to control the trade links through the Persian Gulf and their greatest achievement happened in 911 A.D where the Yemeni established a professional naval force to patrol the gulf and ward off pirates.
The navy was put under the control of the Oligarchy as a whole rather than under the individual Emirs which also promoted in a sense the unity of the Yemeni Emirates. However in the 13th Century a crisis would strike that would cripple the Emirates.
Well there you go hope whoever reads this enjoys it
Next is the Baltic Region HOORAY. Sigh.